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Poem by Robert Burns


To a Lady, with a Present of a Pair of Drinking Glasses


FAIR Empress of the Poet’s soul,
  And Queen of Poetesses;
Clarinda, take this little boon,
  This humble pair of glasses.

And fill them high with generous juice,
  As generous as your mind;
And pledge me in the generous toast-
  ‘The whole of human kind!’

‘To those who love us!’-second fill;
  But not to those whom we love;
Lest we love those who love not us!
  A third-’To thee and me, Love!’



Robert Burns


Robert Burns's other poems:
  1. I Gaed a Waefu' Gate Yestreen
  2. Farewell to Ballochmyle
  3. The Banks of Nith (THE THAMES flows proudly to the sea)
  4. Gala Water
  5. Stay My Charmer


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